Sources told LBCI that an agreement was brokered on Tuesday between a delegation representing the Roumieh Islamist inmates’ families and the adviser of Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouq.
The agreement states that each inmate can meet one member of his family.
Earlier, the families and relatives of Islamist inmates at the Roumieh Prison escalated their actions to pressure authorities to restore telecommunication privileges so as to allow those incarcerated access to the outside world and hence their loved ones.
A group of about 50 women cut off the main Tripoli-Minyeh highway in north Lebanon; a separate group planned a sit-in outside the Interior Ministry in Beirut where they demanded the resignation of Interior Minister Nouhad Mashnouq.
The protesters' stance echoed the demands of Islamist prisoners in Roumieh’s Block D, including access to mobile phones, television sets and computers.
The same families had also protested on Monday in Tripoli.
Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouq has said that Roumieh inmates were in contact with the suicide bombers who carried out the attack on the Tripoli neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen in January.
The protest comes days after Islamist prisoners briefly held several guards hostage following a riot in Roumieh on Friday.